About
Abutilon megapotamicum is a medium-sized shrub that can reach up to 2 meters in height, exhibiting deciduous or semi-evergreen foliage. Its leaves are narrow and tapering in shape. This plant produces pendulous, bell-shaped blooms, characterized by yellow petals surrounded by a prominent crimson calyx during the summer and autumn seasons.
About the genus
Abutilon encompasses a variety of growth forms, including evergreen and deciduous shrubs, trees, perennials, and annuals. The foliage can be either simple or palmately lobed, and the flowers are typically bell-shaped or bowl-shaped, frequently featuring prominent stamens.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Soil type
- Loam, Sand
- Soil pH
- Acid, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Moist but well-drained, Well-drained
- Aspect
- South-facing, East-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H3
Plant details
- Plant type
- Bedding, Conservatory Greenhouse, Shrubs
- Habit
- Bushy
- Foliage
- Semi evergreen
- Height
- 1.5-2.5 metres
- Spread
- 1.5-2.5 metres
- Time to full height
- 10-20 years
- Suggested uses
- Patio and container plants
- Native to
- Brazil
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow as an indoor or conservatory plant or outside as summer bedding in a sheltered position
- Pruning
- Pruning group 9
- Propagation
- Propagate by seed in spring at 15°C to 18°C, or by softwood cuttings
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to glasshouse whitefly, glasshouse red spider mite, mealybugs and scale insects
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to honey fungus (rarely) or a virus